title: "The little squealer" or "the virtual guardian angel"? Young drivers' and their parents' perspective on using a driver monitoring technology and its implications for parent-young driver communication.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In-vehicle driving monitoring technologies have the potential to enable young drivers to learn from self-assessment. However, their use is largely dependent on parental involvement.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 79 interviews were conducted with young drivers and parents regarding this technology and its use. Most had the experience of having an in-vehicle data recorder installed in the vehicle driven by the young drivers. Parents and the young drivers expressed both appreciation as well as reservations about its potential as a means to enhance the driving safety of young drivers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A surprising finding was that some parents did not check the feedback and said they relied on the young driver to do so. Main concerns related to privacy, parent-young driver relationship, self-esteem and confidence, constructive use of the feedback data, and the limitations of the documentation that can be done by the technology.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Providing parents and young drivers with a support system and tools to discuss and utilize the feedback are underscored. Challenges include addressing the invasion of young drivers' privacy and gender differences, and using the monitoring-capacity of the technology to enhance safe driving practices. Implications for programs to enhance communication and a dialogical approach between parents and young drivers are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication and the Herzog Institute for Media, Politics & Society, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. guttman@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Nurit
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Guttman
authors.forename: Anat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gesser-Edelsburg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology*; D001336:Automobiles; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D015995:Prevalence; D011634:Public Health; D036301:Qualitative Research; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012449:Safety; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D035502:Trust